School car
In the Northern Ontario bush, many families lived too far from communities to allow their children to attend school. As a way of providing education to these children of railroad workers, trappers, natives and other people of the bush the Canadian government instituted the school car system (in French: Des écoles sur rails).[definition needed] At its peak, in the 1940s, as many as seven school trains travelled on the tracks of Northern Ontario.[1] The school cars or "school on wheels" ran from 1926 to 1967, and stopped at each site on their route for three to five days out of a month.[1][2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Siegel, Alicia (9 January 2023). "School Cars: How trains brought classrooms to children in remote communities". CBC. Archived from the original on 15 February 2025. Retrieved 15 February 2025.
- ^ Schuessler, Karl and Mary School On Wheels Boston mills press 1986
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